The rankings are not opinion-based. ATRI uses truck GPS data to arrive at the table. Since 2002, the institute has monitored a list of what now is 250 locations around the country.

Rankings change every year. The Tacoma bottleneck had one of the highest jumps on the list, up 16 spots this year.

The stretch of I-5 between the Puyallup River and state Route 16 has seen several construction projects for over a decade. Carpool lanes are being installed, bridges rebuilt and overpasses reconstructed.

Homeless transition center to continue operating

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Satisfying look at city crews filling in potholes

Tacoma's Streets Initiative — a program aimed to maintaining and improving city streets — will have either repaved or had some maintenance treatment on 5,600 block, out of about 8,000 total blocks in Tacoma in 10 years.